Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-28
receive $12 per week. Others are paid on
time and piece work and occasionally make
more than the men.
JAY GOULD'S NEW CAR.
New York SUM-


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Until three weeks ago Millionaire Jay
Gould has not had the luxury of having
property. Heretofore he had used the old
Union Pacific car Convoy, the property Of
the railway company, and reserved for the
use of the president and directors. but as a
matter of fact used almost exclusively BY
Mr.. Gould in his long flying leaps from
one end of the continent to the other.
But the Convoy has been assigned to q
back seat now, and in its place has come
fresh from the Pullman shops and resplen-
dent in ali the glory of polished woods and
glittering mirrors, the beautiful car Alta
lanta named for Mr. Goulds feet-footed
yacht, and, like the yacht, Mr.. Gould's
private property The Atalanta was turn
ed out of the Pullman shops in Chicago
| three weeks age, and brought to the Penn
sylvania railway station in Jersey City,
where it now stands. Mr.. Gould has not
yet seen mis- new purchase. 1t was COM
pleted just after he set out on his recent
yacht voyage. and its owner has not yet
had an opportunity to inspect it
The ATLANTA is remarkable in that it is
by half foot the longest car ever turned
out of the Pullman shops. 1t is 20 feet
long and weighs IS, 900 pounds. The av-
Ferage weight of the Pullman cars is $4,000
pounds. The ATLANTA rests on six-wheel
trucks, the wheels being of paper and 40
inches in diameter 1t was Mr.. Gould's
direction that special pains should
be taken to give the car
strength and steadiness of
motion, and everything to this end that
modern ingenuity has devised was turned
to account in its construction.
The interior appointments of the Atalanta
are remarkable for their massive richness
and total freedom from garish display. In
the end of the car is the observation room
This is an apartment eleven feet, six inches
in length by nine feet in width. 1t is fur
nished with two easy chairs and sofa up
holstered in bronze silk plush, and is COW
cred by thick velvet carpet. On the sides
are racks for wraps, and ovel the sofa an
upper berth is tucked away so deity
into the bulkhead as to be hardly
noticeable, but it can be let down
and made into comfortable bed
The door out of the observation room opens
into private bedroom, which in turn opens
by double sliding doors into a second
private bedroom Both these rooms
are furnished with folding beds,
and have private toilet rooms. When
the sliding doors are thrown open the
room makes handsome parlor eighteen
feet in length by seven feet in width. 1t
is finished in satin wood and is upholstered
in blue silk plush. The observation
room is furnished in mahogany. Back
of the private bed rooms comes the
dining room finished in heavily carved
oak and upholstered, like the OBJ
servation room, in bronze silk plush. The
dining room is fourteen feet long by nine
in width In the center is an oaken extern
sion table, and the bulkhead separating it
from the next apartment is richly carved
in open spindle work. This neat apart
ment simply contains, one on
each side of the car, two
ordinary Pullman sleeping berths. After
this apartment comes toilet room, re-
frigerator, two berths for porter and cook,
and the kitchen The ends Of the car are
furnished with closed platforms